jEdit 5.6 for Mac could be downloaded from the developer's website when we last checked. We cannot confirm if there is a free download of this app available. The most frequent installer filenames for the program include: jedit4.5.1install.dmg and jedit4.4pre1install.dmg etc.
We recommend checking the downloaded files with any free antivirus. JEdit for Mac lies within Developer Tools, more precisely IDE. This free Mac application was originally designed by jEdit Team. The following versions: 5.1, 4.5 and 4.4 are the most frequently downloaded ones by the program users.
From the developer:
jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. To download, install, and set up jEdit as quickly and painlessly as possible, go to the Quick Start page.
You may want to check out more Mac applications, such as Jedit X Plus, Jedit X Standard or ExecuteQuery, which might be similar to jEdit.
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